MacLean improves with age

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AFTER capturing his Olympic silver medal in the Team Sprint in Sydney, Craig MacLean was presented with the freedom of his native Grantown-on-Spey in the Highlands. Four years on, he admits he has not done much with the civic honour yet. “I haven’t grazed any sheep on common land, which is about the only privilege it gives you,” he grins. Nor is there any prospect of putting himself out to grass either. At 33, MacLean is improving, not declining, with age. Which is undoubtedly as much of a surprise to him as it has been to his rivals.